It’s not often that you have a cabinet minister say the quiet bit out loud. But in his candid interview on the Today programme on Tuesday morning, Wes Streeting summed up the dilemma that the UK and the rest of Europe face in dealing with Donald Trump.
On one hand, they want to defend an international rules-based order and can see perfectly well that the US’s military strike on Venezuela and capture of president Nicolas Maduro was likely to have been illegal.
